_48 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
Has. On trunks of trees. Darjeeling. 
Pilei 3 inches long, 21 broad, sessile, laterally connate, subflabelli- 
form, sometimes lobed, thick behind, very acute in front, slightly zoned, 
rough with radiating wrinkles, smooth, somewhat shining, whitish, 
changing in parts to brownish. Hymenium pale tan-coloured ; pores 
behind entire, in front much elongated, their dissepiments thin, la- 
melliform. 
A very pretty species, with somewhat the habit of Lenzites applanata, 
but altogether more delicate, and, indeed, less faithfully exhibiting the 
type of the genus. 
. 329. Boletus Emodensis, n. s. ; pileo primitus ovato-globoso, volva 
universali demum deorsum circumscissa et apicem stipitis vaginante ob- 
tecto ; seniori expanso hemisphærico: dense squamoso tomentoso ruber- 
rimo, margine appendieulato ; stipite elongato flexuoso æquali e mycelio 
spongioso enato ; poris flavis amplis liberis ; carne leviter cærulescente. 
Hook. fil., No. 100, cum ic. | 
Has. On the ground. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet. July and August. 
. Common. : 
Mycelium thick, spongy, reddish-brown. ileus at first ovato-glo- 
bose, covered entirely, as well as the stem, with the universal volva. 
This bursts regularly below as the stem elongates, and forms at its apex 
a close sheath. The pileus soon becomes hemispherical, and at length 
expanded and several inches broad, retaining the volva in large coria- 
ceous shreds at its edge. Its surface is dry, of a vivid strawberry-red, 
and densely clothed with downy scales. Stem 6 inches or more high, 
l inch or more thick, nearly equal, flexuous, rather rough and tomen- 
tose, red, like the pileus, but paler, yellow above, within reddish-brown 
at the base, above white or pinkish, slightly changing to blue when 
cut. Inodorous. Pores rounded behind, ample, yellow within and 
without. Spores fusiform, ochraceous-yellow. 
.. One of the most splendid of the Himalayan fungi, and the pride of 
its genus. It is perhaps most nearly allied to B. chrysenteron, but its 
very peculiar volva, not forming a ring round the stem, but perfectly 
free, its spongy mycelium, and brilliant scaly pileus separate it from all 
species. : 
Tab. III. B. Emodensis, nat. size, in different stages of growth. 
: 330. B. ustalis, n. s.; pileo convexo fuligineo-atropurpureo tomen- 
toso; stipite subæquali obeso rugoso-reticulato nigrescente ; poris ad- 
natis ochraceis. Hook. fil., No. 122, cum ic. 
